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Design for Sustainability and Inclusion in Space

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Design for Sustainability and Inclusion in Space

Design for Sustainability and Inclusion in Space: How New European Bauhaus Principles Drive Nature & Parastronauts Projects by Annalisa Dominoni
English | PDF EPUB | 2024 | 100 Pages | ISBN : 3031560035 | 21.3 MB

This book offers a cutting-edge perspective of design for space to increase astronauts’ wellbeing and performance creating a more sustainable and inclusive environment, but without to forget beauty. The relevant aspect is that these design principles are now also supported and promoted by the European Community with the New European Bauhaus project. It is legitimate to affirm that Space Design is a precursor and inspiring these principles. Space exploration has shown us how results of space research inspire management policies addressing important earth issues such as the responsible use of resources as well as ethical behavior leading to sustainable and inclusive choices. The International Space Station (ISS) is the most successful virtuous example of circular economy and sustainability by almost totally recycling the waste produced. Recently the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the first call for “parastronauts” opening the fly possibilities to people with physical disabilities and thus affirming the principle of inclusion in space. Thanks to design—a bridge between science, technology, and beauty—space opens up to new creative experiments, placing the human being at the center of the interplanetary exploration programs to ensure extra-terrestrial habitats safer, more comfortable, and efficient, where crew will feel “like at home”.

Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

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Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe by Harry Cliff
English | March 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 0385549032 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 2.21 MB

Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.

Walking with Christiaan Huygens: From Archimedes' Influence to Unsung Contributions in Modern Science

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Walking with Christiaan Huygens: From Archimedes' Influence to Unsung Contributions in Modern Science

Walking with Christiaan Huygens: From Archimedes' Influence to Unsung Contributions in Modern Science by Tijmen Jan Moser , Enders Anthony Robinson
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 339 Pages | ISBN : 3031461576 | 74.7 MB

Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) left an indelible mark on the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and geophysics. Despite his groundbreaking contributions, history has often overlooked his pivotal role. While two of the most famous achievements in physics are Newton’s theory of gravity and Einstein’s general theory of relativity, less well-known is that Huygens provided central elements to these theories. This book stands to correct that deficit. For example, we show how Huygens used symmetry arguments to derive conservation laws for momentum and for energy, and what Einstein later called the principle of equivalence to derive the formula for centrifugal force.

Extreme States of Matter: on Earth and in the Cosmos

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Extreme States of Matter: on Earth and in the Cosmos

Extreme States of Matter: on Earth and in the Cosmos by Vladimir E. Fortov
English | PDF (True) | 2011 | 345 Pages | ISBN : 3642164633 | 32.9 MB

With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams, electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets, and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures.

The Kinetic Theory of Inert Dilute Plasmas (Repost)

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The Kinetic Theory of Inert Dilute Plasmas (Repost)

The Kinetic Theory of Inert Dilute Plasmas by Leopoldo S. García-Colín , Leonardo Dagdug
English | PDF (True) | 2009 | 152 Pages | ISBN : 1402093292 | 2 MB

This book results from recent studies aimed at answering questions raised by astrophycists who use values of transport coefficients that are old and often unsatisfactory. The few books dealing with the rigorous kinetic theory of a ionized plasma are based on the so called Landau (Fokker-Planck) equation and they seldom relate the microscopic results with their macroscopic counterpart provided by classical non-equilibrium thermodynamics. In this book both issues are thoroughly covered. Starting from the full Boltzmann equation for inert dilute plasmas and using the Hilbert-Chapman-Enskog method to solve the first two approximations in Knudsen´s parameter, we construct all the transport properties of the system within the framework of linear irreversible thermodynamics. This includes a systematic study of all possible cross effects (which, except for a few cases, were never treated in the literature) as well as the famous H-theorem. The equations of magneto-hydrodynamics for dilute plasmas, including the rather surprising results obtained for the viscomagnetic effects, may be now fully assessed. This book will be of immediate interest to the plasma physics community, as well as to astrophysicists. It is also likely to make an impact in the field of cold plasmas, involving laser cooled Rydberg atoms.

Cosmic Ray Interactions, Propagation, and Acceleration in Space Plasmas (Repost)

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Cosmic Ray Interactions, Propagation, and Acceleration in Space Plasmas (Repost)

Cosmic Ray Interactions, Propagation, and Acceleration in Space Plasmas by Lev I. Dorman
English | PDF (True) | 2006 | 877 Pages | ISBN : 140205100X | 14.9 MB

xxii CONTENTS In 1957 I was invited to work on special problems in Magnetic Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences of USSR as a Head of Department of Magnetic Hydrodynamics. In few years this Laboratory was transfered into the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and I continued to work in this Institute up to 1965. In parallel I also worked at Moscow State University as Professor in the CR and Space Research Team. I also gave lectures in Irkutsk, Alma-Ata, Nalchik, Tbilisi, Erevan, Samarkand, and others places. Over about 40 years of teaching under my supervision more than hundred graduate students and scientists in USSR and some other countries gained their Ph. D. and several tenths became Doctors of Science. As my hobby I continued to work in CR research, and as Vice-President of All-Union Section of Cosmic Rays and Radiation Belts, took an active part in preparing the Soviet net of CR stations to the IGY (International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958): we equipped all soviet stations in USSR and in Antarctica with standard cubic and semi-cubic muon telescopes and with neutron monitors of IGY (or Simpson’s) type. In connection with preparing for the IQSY (the International Quiet Sun Year, 1964-1965), the soviet net of CR stations was extended about two fold and they were equipped with neutron super-monitors of IQSY type (with an effective surface about 10 times bigger than the previous monitor of IGY type).

An Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics and Magnetohydrodynamics

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An Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics and Magnetohydrodynamics

An Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics and Magnetohydrodynamics by Marcel Goossens
English | PDF | 2003 | 215 Pages | ISBN : 1402014295 | 16.6 MB

Most of the visible matter in the universe exists in the plasma state. Plasmas are of major importance for space physics, solar physics, and astrophysics. On Earth they are essential for magnetic controlled thermonuclear fusion.

Gas Accretion onto Galaxies (Repost)

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Gas Accretion onto Galaxies (Repost)

Gas Accretion onto Galaxies by Andrew Fox, Romeel Davé
English | PDF (True) | 2017 | 386 Pages | ISBN : 3319525115 | 12.5 MB

This edited volume presents the current state of gas accretion studies from both observational and theoretical perspectives, and charts our progress towards answering the fundamental yet elusive question of how galaxies get their gas. Understanding how galaxies form and evolve has been a central focus in astronomy for over a century. These studies have accelerated in the new millennium, driven by two key advances: the establishment of a firm concordance cosmological model that provides the backbone on which galaxies form and grow, and the recognition that galaxies grow not in isolation but within a “cosmic ecosystem” that includes the vast reservoir of gas filling intergalactic space. This latter aspect in which galaxies continually exchange matter with the intergalactic medium via inflows and outflows has been dubbed the “baryon cycle”. The topic of this book is directly related to the baryon cycle, in particular its least well constrained aspect, namely gas accretion.

Plasma Astrophysics: Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae

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Plasma Astrophysics: Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae

Plasma Astrophysics: Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae by Arnold Benz
English | PDF | 1993 | 315 Pages | ISBN : 0792324293 | 31.2 MB

This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. It is addressed to observational astronomers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates without a back­ ground in plasma physics. Coronal physics is today a vast field with many different aims and goals. Sort­ ing out the really important aspects of an observed phenomenon and using the physics best suited for the case is a formidable problem.

Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe

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Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe

Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe by Michael A. Dopita , Ralph S. Sutherland
English | PDF | 2003 | 445 Pages | ISBN : 3540433627 | 44 MB

Our purpose in writing this book is to show how physics has been applied to developing our current understanding of the phase structure, physical condi­ tions, chemical makeup and, evolution of the (thermal) interstellar medium. We hope it provides an up-to-date overview which postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, and professionals in astrophysics can use as a "reference of first resort" before going on to read the more specialist monographs or research literature.

Concise Handbook of Astrophysics

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Concise Handbook of Astrophysics

Concise Handbook of Astrophysics: Your companion into the awe-inspiring world of Astrophysics
by Harsh Nema

English | February 28, 2024 | ASIN: B0CWSC6CZV | 158 pages | PNG (.rar) | 28 Mb

Astrophysics: A New Approach

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Astrophysics: A New Approach

Astrophysics: A New Approach by Wolfgang Kundt
English | PDF | 2001 | 185 Pages | ISBN : N/A | 18.5 MB

For a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe - from the solar system through the milky way to clusters of galaxies all the way to cosmology - these edited lecture notes are perhaps among the most concise and also among the most critical ones: Astrophysics has not yet stood the redundancy test of laboratory physics, hence should be aware of early interpretations. Special chapters are devoted to magnetic and radiation processes, supernovae, disks, black-hole candidacy, bipolar flows, cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts, image distortions, and special sources. At the same time, planet earth is viewed as the arena for life, with plants and animals having evolved to homo sapiens during cosmic time. – This text is unique in covering the basic qualitative and quantitative tools, formulae as well as numbers, needed for the precise interpretation of frontline phenomena. The author compares mainstream interpretations with new and even controversial ones he wishes to emphasize.

Astrophysics For Dummies

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Astrophysics For Dummies

Astrophysics For Dummies by Cynthia Phillips, Shana Priwer
English | March 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 1394235046 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 32.44 MB

Discover the undiscovered with this jargon-free introduction to astrophysics

Theory of Orbits: Perturbative and Geometrical Methods

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Theory of Orbits: Perturbative and Geometrical Methods

Theory of Orbits: Perturbative and Geometrical Methods by Dino Boccaletti , Giuseppe Pucacco
English | PDF | 1999 | 429 Pages | ISBN : 3540603557 | 32.7 MB

Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his 1 celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory of stellar dy­ namics as a branch of classical dynamics - a discipline in the same general category as celestial mechanics. [ … ] Indeed, several of the problems of modern stellar dy­ namical theory are so severely classical that it is difficult to believe that they are not already discussed, for example, in Jacobi's Vorlesungen. Since then, stellar dynamics has developed in several directions and at var­ ious levels, basically three viewpoints remaining from which to look at the problems encountered in the interpretation of the phenomenology. Roughly speaking, we can say that a stellar system (cluster, galaxy, etc.) can be con­ sidered from the point of view of celestial mechanics (the N-body problem with N» 1), fluid mechanics (the system is represented by a material con­ tinuum), or statistical mechanics (one defines a distribution function for the positions and the states of motion of the components of the system).

Fundamental Astronomy, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition

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Fundamental Astronomy, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition

Fundamental Astronomy, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition by Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kröger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen, Karl Johan Donner
English | PDF | 1996 | 538 Pages | ISBN : 3540609369 | 58.3 MB

Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the various fields of classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences.